BASF Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BAS?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Institutions	255,792,530	29.3%
General Public	617,362,801	70.7%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 24.74% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
5.88%	BlackRock, Inc.	51,310,783	CHF 2.5b	0%	0.04%
4.71%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	41,165,031	CHF 2.0b	1.52%	0.03%
2.02%	Capital Research and Management Company	17,619,015	CHF 858.6m	8.49%	0.04%
1.63%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	14,232,845	CHF 693.6m	7.36%	0.1%
1.24%	Norges Bank Investment Management	10,785,695	CHF 525.6m	-21.9%	0.04%
0.99%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	8,666,266	CHF 422.3m	-0.16%	0.08%
0.99%	Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management	8,652,125	CHF 421.7m	-0.02%	0.12%
0.89%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	7,790,308	CHF 379.7m	0.11%	0.13%
0.83%	Pzena Investment Management, Inc.	7,208,211	CHF 351.3m	0%	0.63%
0.79%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	6,925,679	CHF 337.5m	-0.97%	0.02%
0.57%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	4,993,937	CHF 243.4m	5.87%	0.04%
0.55%	Union Asset Management Holding AG	4,818,353	CHF 234.8m	0%	0.16%
0.42%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	3,707,432	CHF 180.7m	0.1%	0.01%
0.42%	UBS Asset Management AG	3,688,535	CHF 179.8m	0.21%	0.02%
0.39%	Deka Investment GmbH	3,387,720	CHF 165.1m	-1.97%	0.14%
0.35%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	3,032,255	CHF 147.8m	-0.97%	0.04%
0.32%	FMR LLC	2,772,564	CHF 135.1m	-0.23%	0.01%
0.31%	The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	2,735,707	CHF 133.3m	0%	0.05%
0.25%	Hartford Funds Management Company, LLC	2,217,957	CHF 108.1m	6.54%	0.37%
0.24%	Schroder Investment Management Limited	2,096,041	CHF 102.1m	-0.09%	0.06%
0.21%	M&G Investment Management Limited	1,811,039	CHF 88.3m	0.6%	0.16%
0.19%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	1,674,009	CHF 81.6m	2.53%	0.03%
0.19%	SEI Investments Company	1,628,281	CHF 79.4m	9.34%	0.08%
0.18%	Canada Pension Plan Investment Board	1,585,000	CHF 77.2m	0%	0.04%
0.17%	Assenagon Asset Management S.A.	1,505,010	CHF 73.3m	976%	0.1%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/05/12 11:01
End of Day Share Price	2026/05/12 00:00
Earnings	2026/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

BASF SE is covered by 44 analysts. 19 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Konstantin Wiechert	Baader Helvea Equity Research
Volker Bosse	Baader Helvea Equity Research
null null	Banco de Sabadell. S.A.